It is inevitable that graduates will continue to flood into the City of London to find jobs following university. They are drawn by its variety of opportunities, position as a financial centre of the world and vibrant social life. However, it is rare to experience the buzz of such a working life prior to gaining…

It is that time of the year when our Gap Year Students fly the nest and take a well-earned break before heading off to start their university studies. Although the placement is typically only eight months (some students have agreed with their individual practice areas to extend theirs beyond this) it never ceases to amaze me how much the students…

Congratulations to those of you who have received an invitation for an interview! This means that your application form must have impressed the Graduate Recruitment team and they think you have a realistic chance of being offered a place on the programme, so well done! Depending on how much experience you have, it may be…

As the new Gap Year intake in Pinsent Masons’ London head office, we four interns would like to deliver some advice on some of the things we wish we had known when starting out. Hopefully then, when you are two and a half months into your internship (this may seem far away at the moment,…

After our two months (!) of working life, including highlights of trips to London and receiving our name plates, we decided to take some time to think back to last year, when we were filling out the application form and realising that we actually knew a lot less about law than we originally thought! So…

September heralds the new intake of trainees and gap year students – the latter hoping their eight months at the firm will enable them to gain invaluable work experience and an insight into the inner workings of a commercial law firm. This year, there are four gap year students in the Birmingham office; they introduce themselves…

While most of our friends begin university with a wild fresher’s week or embark on trips around the world, we start our gap years with eight months working as legal support co-ordinators in the Leeds office. This time last year we were doing A-Levels and experiencing the joys of UCAS. Now we are working to gain…

The above Henry Dobson quote couldn’t be better suited to describe our time in Leeds. For both of us the Gap Year Programme was about far more than getting some high-quality commercial and legal experience, the fact that we both lived in completely different cities to where the programme was being offered (Joe lives in Macclesfield…

It’s been a very exciting few months for us all. Obviously our experiences differ quite a lot in terms of departmental work – from trips to court to visiting the Leeds Arena, which is currently under construction; Christmas parties and various trips to the London office. One uniting feature of our experiences has been the…

When I was offered the Gap Year placement at the firm and especially when I had been allocated to Corporate, I was extremely happy. Now I’m no John McClane (in style or substance), but part of me wanted the myths to be true; I wanted the long nights working perilously towards deadlines for big deals, working…